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Cultural Tourism Gr suggests : The 1st International Conference on Cultural and Digital tourism 

The 1st International Conference on Cultural and Digital tourism , with the theme “Cultural tourism in a digital era” will provide a timely and interactive international platform for academics and industry practitioners from cultural, heritage, communication and innovational tourism backgrounds and interests to meet, discuss and debate cultural,heritage and other tourism issues that will affect the future direction of hospitality and tourism research and practice in a digital and innovational era. The Conference is supported by the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism.

The Conference focuses on cultural tourism as it develops into the second decade of the new millennium. It intends to offer not only academic research presentations, but also to promote mutual dialog, interaction and understanding of various stakeholders of hospitality and tourism research outputs, including academic researchers and scholars, industry professionals, and government/quasi-government officials and other key industry practitioners who will share and highlight tourism industry trends and research gaps from a pragmatic and applied perspective. In a globalized , digital era, nations seek to retain a sense of identity through their very unique cultures and history.

The 1st International Conference on Cultural and Digital tourism aims to be a stimulating, challenging and informative platform, offering information and exchange of ideas about trends in all aspects of Cultural Tourism particularly in an era of major global changes. As such, in addition to academic research presentations, the Conference will feature key industry practitioners who will share and highlight industry trends and research gaps from a pragmatic and applied perspective.
Participants will have the opportunity to exchange their knowledge and experiences, and to present their latest achievements in the field of cultural and digital tourism and hospitality management.


Conference Themes/topics  

Presentations and discussions will include, but are not limited to, the following themes/topics within the domain of cultural and digital tourism and hospitality:

Cultural and Digital Tourism Statistics, Economics and Forecasting

Cultural tourism Policy, planning, and governance

Cultural and Digital Tourism Marketing, branding and management

Tourism Consumer behavior, decision making, experience and satisfaction

Sport tourism, festivals and events, lodging and MICE marketing and management

Competitiveness, sustainability and corporate social responsibility

Service excellence and service quality

Social media, emerging technologies and e-tourism

Human resources management and strategic leadership development

Innovation, creativity and change management website

Cultural and Digital Tourism Education and training

Financial and performance management regarding cultural tourism topics

Emerging research methods and methodologies

Other topics of contemporary significance in hospitality and tourism with a global focus

Wine tourism and gastronomy

Museums Hosts Touch Tours for the Blind inerested in Culture

Museums touch tours for Visually Impaired and Blind increased visits

Angel Ayala, left, and Austin Seraphin 
touch a quartzite likeness of Ramesses II 
at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, 
Monday Nov. 25, 2013.

Lately many museums offer facilities for visually impaired. The most common would be magnifying glasses and online audio descriptive tours. At last, blind people have also got the chance to enjoy their visits to certain museums. Museums up until now have been very visual but certain museums arrange scheduled programs or by request, and offer special tours, allowing guests to touch exhibits.They have the opportunity to examine through touch a wide range of objects.

In order to help understand and experience past culture, they use other senses as they feel, touch and in many cases smell objects. Penn Museum in Philadelphia is one of those museums that allow blind visitors to explore by touching. Visitors sanitize their hands before feeling the pieces, which are pre-selected by conservators. When the Overbrook School for the Blind paid a visit to the museum, they had free tours ithat ncluded a classroom lesson on how Egyptians prepared a body for burial. Students jiggled a gelatin mold of the brain — which was removed during the mummification process — and handled facsimiles of relics found in tombs. They also felt ancient linen, smelled scented oils and touched a reproduction of a mummy.

5 December: International Volunteer Day

International Volunteer Day (IVD) 2013 a global celebration of young people acting as the agents of change in their communities.

On International Volunteer Day (IVD) 2013, we not only celebrate and recognize volunteerism in all its facets – but pay special tribute to the contribution of youth volunteers in global peace and sustainable human development. For IVD 2013 we celebrate globally that young people act as the agents of change in their communities. On 5 December, 2013 join us in recognizing all volunteers' commitment and applaud hundreds of millions of people who volunteer to make the world a better place.

UNWTO.Volunteers

Training in development assistance

UNWTO.Volunteers programme aims at training young professionals in tourism as a tool for poverty alleviation and development, enabling them to carry-out hands-on transfers of applied practical know-how that will empower the beneficiaries willing to undertake initiatives related to the sustainable development of tourism.

Objectives

Greek Church and Tourism Professionals promote Religious, Cultural tourism in China

Greece Promotes Religious, Cultural Tourism In China

18 November 2013

A delegation comprising Greek tourism professionals began a visit to China on 13 November to engage in business meetings with leading tour operators of the country to bolster Chinese tourist arrivals in Greece.

The delegation is led by the Greek Synodal Office of Religious Tourism, headed by Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Dodoni and Archimandrite Spyridon Katramados.

Egypt's cultural tourism rise within a month 253 percent

Egypt cultural tourism revenues see steep rise in October

Cultural tourism, which makes up 20 percent of Egypt's tourism trade, sees 253 percent rise from September

Tuesday 12 Nov 2013

The Giza Pyramids (Photo: Reuters)

Revenues generated from touristic visits to museums and antiquities sites recorded LE6 million ($0.8 million) in October, the antiquities ministry stated on Sunday.

Despite the whopping 253 percent rise from September, when cultural touristic visits churned out some LE1.7 million ($0.2 million), revenues remain sharply below 2010 levels.

In October 2010, the country's coffers received around LE111 million ($16 million) in revenues from museum and ancient site visits.

2010 was Egypt's tourism peak, when an estimated 14.7 million tourists visited the country, generating $12.5 billion in revenue.

ΕΛΣΤΑΤ: Αύξηση των επισκεπτών σε Μουσεία και Αρχαιολογικούς χώρους τον Ιούλιο

ΕΛΣΤΑΤ: Κίνηση Μουσείων & Αρχαιολογικών Χώρων, Ιούλιος 2013

Σύμφωνα με την Έρευνα Κίνησης Μουσείων και Αρχαιολογικών Χώρων ανακοινώνονται τα ακόλουθα:

Κατά το μήνα Ιούλιο 2013 παρουσιάστηκε αύξηση των επισκεπτών των Μουσείων σε ποσοστό 18,2%, καθώς και αύξηση των εισπράξεων κατά 14,7% σε σχέση με τον αντίστοιχο μήνα του 2012.

Παρόμοια τάση παρατηρείται και στους αρχαιολογικούς χώρους όπου εμφανίζεται αύξηση των επισκεπτών κατά 23,8% και αύξηση των αντίστοιχων εισπράξεων σε ποσοστό 13,3% σε σχέση με τον αντίστοιχο μήνα του 2012.

Κατά το πρώτο επτάμηνο του 2013 υπήρξε 17,2% αύξηση στους επισκέπτες των Μουσείων και ομοίως αύξηση 12,4% στις εισπράξεις σε σχέση με την αντίστοιχη περίοδο του 2012.

Οι αριθμοί των επισκεπτών στους αρχαιολογικούς χώρους κατά το ίδιο χρονικό διάστημα του 2013 εμφανίζουν αύξηση κατά 28,7% ενώ αντίστοιχη αύξηση κατά 19,5% εμφανίζεται και στις εισπράξεις σε σχέση με την αντίστοιχη περίοδο του 2012.

Σχολή Τοπικής Ιστορίας για το Αγρίνιο και την Ευρύτερη Περιοχή με περιηγήσεις

Κύκλος Σεμιναρίων Τοπικής Ιστορίας

ΣΧΟΛΗ ΤΟΠΙΚΗΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΓΕΑ

Προσθήκη λεζάντας  

Η Γυμναστική Εταιρεία Αγρινίου αναπτύσσοντας νέες δραστηριότητες και ενισχύοντας την φιλεκπαιδευτική της δράση διοργανώνει τον πρώτο συστηματικό κύκλο σεμιναρίων Τοπικής Ιστορίας.

Στόχος των σεμιναρίων να καλύψει όσο το δυνατόν περισσότερο το φάσμα της ιστορίας της περιοχής του Αγρινίου.

Ο πρώτος θεματικός κύκλος που θα υλοποιηθεί φέτος περιλαμβάνει την ιστορία της περιοχής από την αρχαιότητα έως τον 20^ο αιώνα.

Αποτελείται από δύο μέρη: Το πρώτο περιλαμβάνει 10 εκλαϊκευμένες εισηγήσεις που θα γίνουν στην αίθουσα εκδηλώσεων του Παπαστρατείου Μεγάρου όλες Τετάρτη ώρες 18:00-21:00 το απόγευμα από επιστήμονες του τόπου μας και όχι μόνο που έχουν ασχοληθεί με την τοπική ιστορία, ενώ το δεύτερο μέρος πρόκειται για το πρακτικό κομμάτι που προβλέπει περιηγήσεις σε σημεία ιστορικού ενδιαφέροντος μέσα στην πόλη του Αγρινίου.

Ο δεύτερος κύκλος θα ασχοληθεί διεξοδικά με την ιστορία της περιοχής μας τον 20^ο αιώνα.

Στο τέλος των σεμιναρίων θα δίνεται και σχετική βεβαίωση.

Οι εγγραφές γίνονται καθημερινά Δευτέρα έως Παρασκευή από 11:00-13:00 το πρωί και από 18:00-20:00 το απόγευμα στον τρίτο όροφο του Παπαστρατείου Μεγάρου.

Πληροφορίες καθημερινά τις ίδιες ώρες στο τηλέφωνο 2641024767.

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